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constitute credit card theft or a violation of (b) or (c)(3) above
violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in
(j) (H) (1) of this section.

(5)    A person who, with intent to defraud a purported issuer, a
person or organization providing money, goods, services or anything
else of value, or any other person, falsely makes or falsely embosses a
purported credit card, or utters such a credit card or possesses such a
credit card with knowledge that such credit card has been falsely
made or falsely embossed is guilty of credit card forgery and is
subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(2) of this section. A per-
son "falsely makes" a credit card when he makes or draws, in whole
or in part, a device or instrument which purports to be the credit card
of a named issuer but which is not such a credit card because the
issuer did not authorize the making or drawing, or alters a credit
card which was validly issued. A person "falsely embosses" a credit
card when, without the authorization of the named issuer, he com-
pletes a credit card by adding any of the matter, other than the
signature of the cardholder, which an issuer requires to appear on
the credit card before it can be used by a cardholder.

(6)    A person other than the cardholder or a person authorized
by him who, with intent to defraud the issuer, or a person or organiza-
tion providing money, goods, services or anything else of value, or
any other person, signs a credit card is guilty of credit card forgery
and is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(2) of this section.

(d) A person, who, with intent to defraud the issuer, a person or
organization providing money, goods, services or anything else of
value, or any other person, (i) uses for the purpose of obtaining
money, goods, services or anything else of value a credit card ob-
tained or retained in violation of (c) of this section or a credit card
which he knows is forged; or (ii) obtains money, goods, services or
anything else of value by representing without the consent of the
cardholder that he is the holder of a specified card or by representing
that he is the holder of a card and such card has not in fact been
issued, violates this subsection and is subject to the penalties set
forth in (j)(H)(1) of this section, if the value of all money, goods,
services and other things of value obtained in violation of this sub-
section does not exceed $500; and subject to the penalties set forth in
(j)(H)(2) of this section if such value exceeds $500.

(e) A person who uses a credit card to obtain goods, money, or

services in excess of the value of $1,000.00 after he personally has

signed a registered mail letter, return receipt, from the issr revok-

ing or suspending his credit card, is guilty of the use of a revoked

credit card and is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(l) of this

section.

(f) (E)(1) A person who is authorized by an issuer to furnish
money, goods, services or anything else of value upon presentation of
a credit card by the cardholder, or any agent or employees of such
person, who, with intent to defraud the issuer or the cardholder,
furnishes money, goods, services or anything else of value upon
presentation of a credit card obtained or retained in violation of (c)
of this section or a credit card which he knows is forged violates this
subsection and is subject to the penalties set forth in (j)(H)(1) of
this section, if the value of all money, goods, services and other things
of value furnished in violation of this subsection does not exceed $500